Sunday, 26 January 2014

Recipe for Chicken Rezala

I first tried Chicken Rezala at a traditional mughlai cuisine restaurant named "Sabeer's" in good old Kolkata. The aroma of the spices and the faint hint of sweetness in the gravy made my taste buds tingle. If I can describe the taste it should be something like "A spoonful of heaven in your mouth".

Ingredients:

Cashew nuts: 10-15

Poppy Seeds: 3 heaped tbsp

Yogurt: 1 cup

Chicken : 750 gm

Fresh cream: 1 tbsp

Onion paste: 1 cup

Ginger paste: 1 and 1/2 tbsp

Garlic paste: 1 and 1/2 tbsp

Bay leaf: 1

Dried red chilli: 2

Cardamom: 3-4

Cloves: 3-4

Cinnamon stick : 2( 1/2 inch each)

Cumin Powder: 1 tbsp

Coriander Powder: 1tbsp

Ghee: 2 tbsp

Oil: 2 tbsp

Salt

Sugar : 1 teaspoon

Keora water: 1 teaspoon

Rose water: 1 teaspoon

Procedure:

Grind cashews and poppy seeds together in a mixer grinder, turn it into a thick paste.